Thorsten Ott
Managing Partner, Cloud & Managed Services at Fueled
Cologne Bonn Region Germany
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Top SchoolThorsten Ott is a seasoned cloud and managed services leader with 13 years of experience designing and operating large-scale WordPress and cloud platforms from engineering to executive roles. Currently Managing Partner for Cloud & Managed Services at Fueled, he previously led and scaled 10up’s enterprise managed services and systems engineering teams. He brings hands-on back-end expertise—contributing performance and sync improvements to popular open-source projects like ElasticPress—alongside a track record of building service portfolios for demanding enterprise clients. His background spans support roles at Automattic and Piston Cloud to founding a web services firm, giving him rare empathy for both customer-facing support and deep engineering work. Based in the Cologne/Bonn region, Thorsten combines operational rigor with product-minded strategy to turn complex infrastructure needs into repeatable managed offerings.
14 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
specialist for communication electronics information technologies, specialist for communication electronics information technologies at The University of Bonn
English, German
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Github Skills (13)
plugin-development10
seo-optimization10
wordpress10
elasticsearch10
elasticsearchquery10
php10
search-engine10
aws-elasticsearch10
optimisation10
back-end-development10
elasticsearch-api10
amazon-elasticsearch10
mappings9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
10up/ElasticPress
Nov 2018 - Dec 2019
A fast and flexible search and query engine for WordPress.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 reviews, 36 commits, 17 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Thorsten's contributions primarily involve enhancing the `elasticpress` plugin, a search and query engine for WordPress. They implemented features to sync content more efficiently, particularly when large amounts of data are updated during a single page load. Further contributions include resolving admin screen determination issues and improving the mapping versioning system, including the introduction of a method for identifying the mapping version currently in use. Additional changes include improved query functionality and optimizations.
query-enginewordpresselasticsearchsearchwordpress-plugin
10up/10up-batcache
Nov 2018 - Apr 2020
A memcached HTML page cache for WordPress.
Contributions:5 PRs, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
memcachedwordpress
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